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Katie Ryder

Katie Ryder is a freelance writer and a contributing editor for Guernica. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review Daily, NewYorker.com, and others.

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White music fans are afraid of difference

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A better border is possible

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Morgan Spurlock and Laura Poitras (AP)

Filmmakers respond to Greenwald article

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Kinkade’s world of parody

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Tom Bissell

Secrets of creation

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After the climax

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The Girl Scout haters’ biggest mistake

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Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul (AP/Reuters)

Inside the new hate

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